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These improvements all sounds very impressive, but are roughly in line with Moore’s law.Īs with the MacBook Air, Apple also touted its environmental focus for the new machine. Cooling is achieved through a new thermal system with double the airflow. It also includes Apple’s T2 chip which offers 32 times faster HEVC video encoding.

The new model still looks pretty similar, but it ditches the silver design and boosts the speed, while also sacrificing the SDXC card slot and dedicated audio in.Įvery new Mac mini has all-flash storage with SSDs four times faster and capacities of up to 2TB, double the capacity of its predecessor.
Toms hardware mac mini review update#
The new update is a long-awaited refresh, with Apple’s lack of innovation begging the question of whether the company had abandoned the product line entirely.
Toms hardware mac mini review upgrade#
On the outside, the new Mac mini has Gigabit Ethernet (with the option to upgrade to 10-gigabit Ethernet), four Thunderbolt 3 ports, HDMI video out and two USB-A ports. It uses an Intel eighth-generation CPU with 60 percent faster graphics, making the machine five times faster than its predecessor. Tom Boger, head of Mac product marketing, described it as the “biggest upgrade ever” to the Mac mini, and said it’s an “absolute beast on the inside.” It starts with four cores, with the option to upgrade to a six-core processor. “There’s some other small but mighty Mac our users have been waiting for,” CEO Tim Cook said on stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. At its final hardware event of the year, Apple announced a new version of its tiny desktop computer, which comes in a new dark aluminum enclosure with internal processors that offer up to five times faster performance compared to its predecessor, with prices starting from $799. The CPU in the mac mini is a dual core mobile i5, they perform ALOT worse than their desktop counterparts, their performance is comparable to ivy bridge based pentiums.The Mac mini has received its first update in over four years. (Generated by PCPartPicker 13:46 EDT-0400) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) ($88.90 Amazon) Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 Newegg)

Video Card: PowerColor Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB Video Card ($79.99 Newegg)Ĭase: Antec VSK-3000 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($19.99 Newegg) Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.99 NCIX US) Memory: Patriot Signature 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($52.99 Newegg)

Motherboard: MSI B75MA-P45 Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($67.24 Amazon) PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / BenchmarksĬPU: Intel Core i5-3350P 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($169.99 Newegg) Yes, the mac mini isnt build for gaming, no discrete gpu, a 2.5ghz cpu and only 4gb thats not good for gaming, thats why i provided a faster cpu/mobo better storage,gpu,ram basically everything is going to perform better and the cheapest mac mini is $600
Toms hardware mac mini review Pc#
Well I'm only using it for the games I specified and whats the point? Will the custom pc be sooooo much better? Fpswise? (Generated by PCPartPicker 12:34 EDT-0400) (Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
Toms hardware mac mini review plus#
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($29.99 Newegg) Video Card: MSI Radeon HD 7850 2GB Video Card ($139.65 Newegg)Ĭase: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.98 Outlet PC) Memory: Kingston HyperX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($62.99 NCIX US) Motherboard: ASRock 970 EXTREME4 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($89.99 Newegg) nope, never here get this: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / BenchmarksĬPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($117.98 Outlet PC)
